News Climate change

Trade unions expressed concern at the closing of the annual gathering of the United Nations climate change convention in Bonn over the limited progress made in building the strong governance, oversight and action which will prevent runaway climate change.

The UN climate talks in Bonn open this week to discuss how to deliver the promises of the historic 2015 Paris Agreement to stay below a 2°C increase in average temperatures, and ensure a Just Transition to a zero-carbon future for workers and their communities.

G7 Labour Ministers are meeting in Turin (29 September – 1 October) to address the Future of Work as global anxieties about jobs and rising inequality between the one per cent richest people and the rest of the population continue to grow.

Unions around the world are pleased to see governments standing together in their resolve to implement the Paris climate agreement, with the impending threat of a US withdrawal from the agreement under a Trump Presidency.